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Fron Goch
Powys, Wales ยท Atlas WA1224
Location
- Atlas number
- WA1224 (1224)
- Country
- Wales
- Current county or unitary authority
- Powys
- Historic county
- Montgomeryshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glantwymyn
- National Grid reference
- SH82220136
- Latitude
- 52.59721
- Longitude
- -3.74038
- Altitude
- 282 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1887); Other (2007); Other (1990-1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- MG332(POW)
- HER
- Clwyd Powys 718
- National record
- record SH 80 SW; monument 303139
- Wikidata
- Q31061766
Sources
References
- Hankinson, R. 2008. Defended enclosures in Montgomeryshire. A further study. Project Report. CPAT Report No 918, Welshpool: Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, 1911. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, I, County of Montgomery, No. 160, London: HMSO.
- Silvester, R.J. and Britnell, W.J. 1993. Montgomeryshire small enclosures project. Summary Report 1993, CPAT Report No 80, Welshpool, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.